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And there were flowers everywhere, and in back from the beach the grass was thick and lush and neck-high.

The Night-Born 2010

She arrived at Glass Lotus Temple with four family members to escape neck-high floodwaters inundating her home.

Thai Monks Struggle to Keep a Flooded Temple Open James Hookway 2011

He helped others in the building get out, he said, but couldn't get to part of his floor because of neck-high flames.

Pilot May Have Targeted IRS in Austin Crash Russell Gold 2010

And it was a thrill, as we neared the bank of the island in water that was still neck-high, to feel the mud from the bottom between my toes.

Lynda, The First 2010

Earlier in the fifth, with the bases already full and nobody out, Alexi Casilla swung at a neck-high pitch and popped out.

USATODAY.com 2008

He helped others in the building get out, he said, but couldn't get to part of his floor because of neck-high flames.

Tax Protester Crashes Plane Into IRS Office Russell Gold 2010

Then I returned through the pine wood, neck-high with red weed here and there, and so came home past the College Arms.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

The authors of the paper then repeated the experiment but with an important twist: they placed a neck-high wall in front of the monkey, forcing the animal to make an intermediate movement – a reach over the wall in this case – to grasp any object.

SciAm Mind - Mirroring Behavior - How mirror neurons let us interact with others William Harryman 2009

It wasn't the guards, she says, who saved her, but the prisoners, coaxing her through neck-high muck to reach a boat.

Carol Cassidy: Broken Promises: Two Years After Katrina 2008

And this summer, the thrill is Foam Fests, in which barely clad teens and adults dance neck-high in fan-pumped suds.

Scrub Up And Dance 2008